Postcolonial writers in the global literary marketplace / Sarah Brouillette.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brouillette, Sarah, 1977-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Commonwealth literature (English)--History and criticism.

Commonwealth literature (English).

Authorship--Economic aspects--History--20th century.

Authorship.

Literature publishing--History--20th century.

Literature publishing.

Literature and globalization--Commonwealth countries.

Literature and globalization.

Book industries and trade--History--20th century.

Book industries and trade.

Postcolonialism in literature.

History.

Authorship--Economic aspects.

Commonwealth countries.

Physical Description:

vi, 206 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Summary:

Postcolonial Writers in the Global Literary Marketplace considers some of the market conditions that have framed the emergence of English-language postcolonial literatures, and suggests modifications to existing accounts of how a writer's marginality is experienced by consumers of postcolonial texts. Arguing that the incorporation of writers who are marketed as postcolonial has been crucial to global expansion and consolidation in the publishing industry, Sarah Brouillette connects market incorporation to the self-consciousness of a set of postcolonial writers. She situates their attempts at self-definition, self-critique, and self-defence within the general history of literary authorship, and argues for new ways of understanding authorship in light of the experiences of figures like Derek Walcott and Salman Rushdie. Combining explorations of existing theory with wide-scale market analysis and close attention to writers' careers and texts, this study makes an exciting contribution to globalization studies and to the emerging history of the postcolonial book.

Contents:

The industry of postcoloniality

Postcolonial writers and the global literary marketplace

Salman Rushdie's 'unbelonging' : authorship and 'the East'

Locating J.M. Coetzee

Zulfikar Ghose and cosmopolitan authentication.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 198-202) and index.

ISBN:

9780230507845

0230507840

OCLC:

82287422

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